Dr. Kersey Antia is the Zoroastrian
High Priest of Chicago, Illinois, a position he has held since 1977. He
attended the M.F. Cama Athornan Institute in Bombay for 9 years where he
received an award for excellence, and became an ordained priest at the age
of 13. He studied Avesta and Pahlavi in secondary school and at the
University of Bombay. While in college, he received essay-awards from the
K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, and has served the community as a volunteer
priest ever since his first job as a Tata officer in 1960.. He obtained a
Masters in Psychology from North Carolina State University, and a
Doctorate in Psychology from Indiana Northern University. After working as
a psychologist at the University of North Carolina, in private industry
and for the State of Illinois, his is now engaged in full time private
practice. He has lectured and written on the subject of Zoroastrianism, in
India and the United States, both live and on radio and on television, and
has made video courses on Zoroastrianism. He has studied the Gathas on his
own for many years. Utilizing, at first, the translations of Kanga, Mills,
and Taraporewala, he now relies primarily on Dr. Insler's translation.